Vol. 15 No. 13 · 8 July 1993
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Vol. 15 No. 13 · 8 July 1993
R.W. Johnson
Beloved Country
Letters
Christopher Price, Terence Hawkes, R. Davies, Dennis Newson, Mark Thompson, Helga Graham, Miles Burrows, Michael Holroyd, C.J.H. O’Brien, Norman Hackett, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Tim Trengove-Jones, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Patricia Hunt, Phil Edwards, Jonathan Sawday, Adrian Bowyer
James Lasdun
Poem: ‘Erisychthon’
John Lloyd
Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl by Piers Paul Read. Secker, 478 pp., £16.99, May 1993, 0 436 40963 1
Phillip Knightley
Deadly Illusions: The First Book from the KGB Archives by John Costello and Oleg Tsarev. Century, 538 pp., £18.99, June 1993, 9780712655002
Eric Hobsbawm
Harold Laski: A Political Biography by Michael Newman. Macmillan, 438 pp., £45, March 1993, 0 333 43716 0 Harold Laski: A Life on the Left by Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman. Hamish Hamilton, 669 pp., £25, June 1993, 0 241 12942 7
E.P. Thompson
Political Justice by William Godwin, introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth. Woodstock, £150, November 1992, 1 85196 019 8 The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin edited by Mark Philp. Pickering & Chatto, £395, March 1993, 1 85196 026 0 Political Writings by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Janet Todd. Pickering & Chatto, 411 pp., £39.95, March 1993, 1 85196 019 8 Memoirs of Wollstonecraft by William Godwin, introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth. Woodstock, 199 pp., £8.95, April 1993, 1 85477 125 6
Terry Eagleton
The Hand of the Arch-Sinner: Two Angrian Chronicles of Branwell Brontë edited by Robert Collins. Oxford, 300 pp., £30, April 1993, 0 19 812258 6
Andrew O’Hagan
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle. Secker, 282 pp., £12.99, June 1993, 0 436 20135 6
Julian Loose
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington. Secker, 416 pp., £8.99, August 1992, 0 436 53120 8 Looking for the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy. Secker, 254 pp., £7.99, February 1993, 0 436 23321 5 The Lights Below by Carl MacDougall. Secker, 254 pp., £7.99, February 1993, 9780436270796
John Sutherland
Air and Fire by Rupert Thomson. Bloomsbury, 310 pp., £15.99, April 1993, 0 7475 1382 1 Dreams of Leaving by Rupert Thomson. Penguin, 435 pp., £6.99, April 1993, 0 14 017148 7 The Five Gates of Hell by Rupert Thomson. Penguin, 368 pp., £5.99, March 1992, 0 14 016537 1
Christopher Prendergast
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright. Chatto, £15, November 1992, 0 7011 3992 7
Owen Bennett-Jones
Diary: Night Shifts at Bush House
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